Новости за 14.05.2016

Thousands of far-right supporters have gathered on a field in southern Austria to commemorate the massacre of Croatian pro-Nazis by victorious communists at the end of World War II.

Self-expression is hardly a part of life for cadets at the United States Military Academy. So it was far from ordinary when 16 black women put their own spin on the traditional graduation photo, hoisting their fists in the air while posing in their dress uniforms, swords at their sides. A social media firestorm followed. So did an internal inquiry at the school.

Iran is staging an international cartoon contest on the Holocaust, saying it is not a denial of the Nazi massacre.

Not much is known about Robert Creech, 89, other than he was born March 17, 1927, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, he received an honorable discharge, he died in a care facility in Ocean Springs and he has no known living relatives.

On Friday, in front of her family and friends and fellow graduates at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island’s All-Weather Training Facility, Shadena Myers talked about her past, the military and PTSD.

With barely a glance at his PowerPoint screen, Luke Jarrell traced the final run of the U-505, the German U-boat captured during World War II. The last time America had captured an enemy ship was during the War of 1812. "So this was a really big deal," Jarrell told audience members Saturday at the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center. His presentation was a big deal, as well.

With family and close friends looking on, Mayor Betsy Price took to the warm blue skies from a Lockheed Martin runway in west Fort Worth Friday in an F-16.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Thursday with European bankers to clarify rules for doing business with Iran, which complains that continued U.S. sanctions are blocking economic benefits it expects from the nuclear deal signed last July.

The White House deflected backlash against a new directive on the use of school bathrooms by transgender students Friday, saying the guidance was given in direct response to questions from school administrators about how to deal with the emotionally charged issue.

The federal government issued guidance to school districts on transgender students Friday amid a national debate on the use of public restrooms by transgender people.

Elizabeth Trudeau, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said the hacking and publishing of media workers' personal information undermines the “critical role” of journalists, “particularly in countries where civil and political rights are fragile, and in areas of conflict where the hazards of reporting are at their most extreme.”

More Navy SEALs have died in training over the last three years than in combat or from combat-related wounds, according to records kept by the Navy SEAL Foundation, a nonprofit group based in Virginia Beach, Va.

Supporters of a deal allowing the U.S. access to military bases in the Philippines are hoping the new president-elect will embrace the agreement despite his outspoken opposition to U.S. influence and his promise to shake up foreign policy when he takes office next month.

The top commander of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah was killed in Syria by insurgent shelling, Hezbollah said Saturday, vowing to continue its involvement in Syria's civil war.

The U.S. business lobby says it is high time to drop the remaining U.S. sanctions on Myanmar, but human rights activists and U.S. lawmakers say not so fast.

The Afghan government is expected to finalize a peace deal with a notorious militant insurgent group within days, marking a breakthrough in attempts to end the 15-year war, an official and a representative of the group said on Saturday.

A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb inside a police training center in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on Saturday morning, killing at least three people, a local official said.

Four people were killed when a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform detonated a car bomb inside a police training center in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on Saturday morning, a local official said.

The attack happened at around 9:30 a.m. near a school in the Nad Ali district to the west of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, told Stars and Stripes.

Since Obama made the pledge last September, only around 1,500 Syrian refugees have been admitted into the United States.

China’s military became more assertive in the South China Sea and underwent nascent reforms intended to make it deadlier and more loyal to the ruling political party, according to an annual report.

Tunisians form the largest contingent of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. But with U.S. and Russian airstrikes hammering them there, more Tunisians are joining the Islamic State in Libya.

The crowd stood in somber silence and some wiped away tears as the casket of Charles Keating IV was carried out of a Catholic church and driven through seven blocks lined with mourners.

Marine Maj. Mark Thompson was fixated on proving he'd been unfairly convicted of having sex with two female midshipmen — but his obsession brought new facts of the case to light.